On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Me <[email protected]> wrote: > But is the validates_presence_of supposed to catch that first? > > ah ok, now i see what you mean.
validations don't work that way. all validations are run even when the previous validations fail. that's why you need to add :if and :except arguments so that some validations are run only when some conditions are met. > On Tuesday, March 8, 2011 9:33:40 PM UTC-6, jim wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Me <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Ok, well the value in the validates_each is giving me nil, not sure why. >>> Error is: >>> >>> The error occurred while evaluating nil.>=): >>> >>> validates_presence_of :code >>> validates_uniqueness_of :code >>> validates_presence_of :valid_from_date, :expiry_date >>> validates_each :expiry_date do |record, attribute, value| >>> record.errors.add(:expiry_date, 'must be after or the same as valid >>> from date') unless value >= record.valid_from_date >>> end >>> >>> >> the error says that value is nil so check first if it's nil or not. >> >> validates_each :expiry_date do |record, attribute, value| >> record.errors.add(:expiry_date, 'must be after or the same as valid from >> date') if value && !(value >= record.valid_from_date) >> end >> >> >>> On Tuesday, March 8, 2011 8:28:21 PM UTC-6, jim wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Me <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> If you have: >>>>> >>>>> validates_presence_of >>>>> validates_uniqueness_of >>>>> ... >>>>> >>>>> validates_each >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> What fires in what order? >>>>> >>>> >>>> the way you order them in your model file. so validates_presence_of goes >>>> first, >>>> uniqueness next then validates_each. >>>> >>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.com >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.com >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------- visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
